What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

My truck is going in for paint today. Im debating having the fenders and grille painted as well.

 

What's the scoop man, worth it or no? Still testing?

 

Didn't do this today, but since I'm new here..

Custom padded rifle box
Camo door panels and center console

Ignore the crappy Walmart seat covers. I am planning to upgrade those in the future.

 

kings have quite a long compressed length. youd be quite limited to the travel shock used in factory mounts without loosing alot of uptravel. Imo the only way to take full advantage of those leafs/shocks are to do a shock relocation.

 

Im changing the timing belt and valve cover gaskets next month and thinking about trying to clean up all the carbon I can find. Anybody try this stuff with any success?

ACDelco GM Original Equipment 10-3007 Top Engine Cleaner - 13 oz Aerosol

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007Q102AE/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8

 

That's what I'm thinking....damn it more

 

Haha thanks for the reminder. Last night was a vast improvement in brightness and sharpness. But I noticed something that I have to correct before I give a final judgment on them. Because the old sealed beams wore their columnating lens in front the result was a soft light distribution that hid the fact that my lights were grossly out of alignment vertically. The new lights cast their low beam with a sharp cutoff, not unlike a projector. So my illuminated distance in front of the truck was very shallow albeit bright last night. I am going to properly realign my lights since it hasn't been done ever (and my truck has a massive rake) and then I expect very different results. The highbeam however was so amazingly brilliant and cast very far so I'm sure these are going to be great once properly aligned. I'll let you know tomorrow after I've had a chance to align them (tonight) and drive it a bit.

 

A wise man you are. I always carry TP as well.

 

Hey man, it's hunting season. I ain't getting stranded lol.

 

You never know the importance of having a roll of bum wad till your cheek deep with a handful of birch rind.

 

Never leave home without it, I even bring it along on long hikes, learned that lesson the hard way...

 

soon as it quits raining long enough for me not to kill my camera in the process!
it has actually settled down about 3/4 inch now from where it sat right after I finished... which is good because it was pretty much on the extreme limit of comfortable down travel there at first...

 

on another note, I didn't get an alignment done yet.
but the firestone problem has ben resolved. I took them my original paper work yesterday they where very apologetic...
the guy at the desk explained that the computers that they where previously using where original from when they opened in the mid eighty's now they finally upgraded causing some customers who had not ben there for service in the last year or so to be lost.

 

So I come out to my truck last night and I see this. Must have happened in the past day or so. I'm guessing a big branch, probably the one that fell the day before. Although I guess I just didn't notice the night before when I went out to work.



Might give the heatgun/compressed air method a try to get the dent out. From what I've heard, it does pretty well. But there are two spots where the paint got cracked/ruined. And now I've got to figure out how to get those taken care of. Would just a paint pen work, or would I need to do a multi-step process with clear coat and w/e is needed?
I was thinking about going through insurance, since it should be covered under comprehensive, but that'd be a $150 deductible...

 

Take tail light out and push from the back side.

 

I was gonna do that, but I thought there wasn't access past the hole where the tail light sits. I'm sure I'm wrong. I'll take it out and look. Maybe tomorrow when I hopefully get to see daylight.

 

does anyone know why some posts from a long time ago are just randomly deleted? Ill see people quoted a post in a thread from like 2012 but the actual post is gone..

 

I've wondered this since I've been on here.

 

Member was probably banned or deleted